News

2022:

- New draft of massive collaboration between Bastos Lab, Desimone Lab, our group and Miller Lab on bioRxiv


Micala Maddox won Vanderbilt’s Professional Excellence Award - congratulations!


Jacob Westerberg has a new paper in press at NeuroImage


- Check out our entry to the 3Blue1Brown Summer of Math Exposition (SoME#2


- Jacob Westerberg successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis - congratulations, Jake!


Blake Mitchell and Brock Carlson were selected for NeuroDataReHack


- OpenScope collaboration with Bastos Lab was recommended for award


Brock CarlsonBlake Mitchell and Jake Westerberg were awarded a Vanderbilt University Graduate School Travel Grant



- We have an invited review on binocular vision in press at Annual Reviews


Blake Mitchell has a new paper in press at iScience



Brock CarlsonBlake Mitchell & Jake Westerberg will present latest findings at VSS



Jake Westerberg has a new paper in press at eLife 


- We were awarded a TIPs grant for research on the neuroscience of arousal with the Chang Lab



2021:

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Jake Westerberg has a new paper in press at PNAS 

  

Blake Mitchell was awarded an NIH T32 training grant 



2020: 

- New paper with Leopold lab and Schmid lab in press at Current Biology 

- New paper with David Tovar (Wallace laband Tom Carlson in press at Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

- New paper with Kacie Dougherty (now: postdoc at Kastner lab) and Paul Martin in press at eNeuro

- New paper on the neuroscience of consciousness in press at Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics with Nao Tsuchiya

- Read our Current Biology Dispatch for de Jong et al.'s paper on measuring the activity of human brain cells 

Jake Westerberg received a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the National Eye Institute

Jake won the Doctoral Dissertation Research Excellence Award ofthe Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

- New paper honoring Jack Pettigrew, co-authored with Olivia CarterBruno van SwinderenDavid Leopold and Shaun Collin at JCN

Michelle Schall was awarded the Vanderbilt Department of Psychology's 2020 Staff Award

Jake Westerberg has received the Pat Burns Memorial Graduate Student Research Award

 Jake Westerberg has a new paper in press at eNeuro


2019: 

Jake Westerberg has a new paper in press at Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

- Matthew Self and Pieter Roelfsema featured our paper in their dispatch.  

Jan Brascamp featured our latest research in his dispatch for Current Biology 

Kacie Dougherty was awarded the Vanderbilt Department of Psychology's 2019 Postdoctoral Award

Michele Cox was awarded the Vanderbilt Department of Psychology's 2019 Dissertation Award

Kacie Dougherty was awarded the inaugural NEI Postdoctoral Travel Grant of the Vision Sciences Society


- New paper with Tong lab in press at Current Biology


Brock CarlsonKacie Dougherty and Jake Westerberg will present our latest findings at VSS


- Jake Westerberg has a new paper in press at Journal of Neurophysiology


- Listen to our 3/10 @11AM radio interview with Vance Durbin, host of "Eye on Vision" on FM 89.3 WYPL



Michele Cox has a new paper in press at Journal of Vision


Kacie Dougherty has a new paper in press at Current Biology (see press release)



2018: 

Kacie Dougherty successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis - congratulations, Kacie!

Jake Westerberg won an NVIDIA GPU grant for his work that applies machine learning to neurophysiological data analysis.

Jake Westerberg won the Vivien Casagrande Neuroscience Travel Award for his presentation at VSS

- Kacie Dougherty has a new paper in press at J Comp Neurol

- New paper with Wallace lab in press at JOCN 

- Kacie Dougherty received a Gordon Research Seminar Travel Award for the Gordon Research Conference on Thalamocortical Interactions


2017: 

Michele Cox has a new paper in press at Cerebral Cortex [covered by Academic Minute and Science Friday]

- Upcoming chapter with Drs. Jeff Schall and Geoff Woodman in Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology

Michele Cox successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis - congratulations, Michele!

- Jake Westerberg will present at SfN 2017, for which he won the 2017 FST student travel award

- Upcoming chapters with Dr. Michael Schmid in Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science

Kacie Dougherty has been selected to participate at this year’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course on Vision 

Kacie Dougherty has successfully renewed her NIH T32 training grant the 3rd year in a row. 

Jake Westerberg was awarded an NIH T32 training grant

Kacie Dougherty has received the Pat Burns Memorial Graduate Student Research Award

- 5-year R01 Research Grant awarded by the National Eye Institute

- Kacie Dougherty's and Jake Westerberg's presentations were selected for VSS2017

- Jake Westerberg's presentation was selected for Cosyne 2017

2016: 

- New paper with Schmid lab in press at Nature Sci. Rep. 

- SfN Symposium: "Mechanisms of object organization in the visual cortex" with Rudiger von der HeydtAnitha Pasupathy and Hamutal Slovin

- Michele Cox received the Pat Burns Memorial Graduate Student Research Award

Michele Cox received a Gordon Research Seminar Travel Award

Competitive Renewal granted for our Grant by the Knights Templar Eye Foundation

- New feature about our work in German version of "Scientific American"

- Symposium with Tony Movshon, Marty Usrey, Anna Roe, Bruce Cumming, Adam KohnPieter Roelfsema at Gordon Research Conference

- New paper with Brett Foster, Biyu He, Christopher Honey, Karim Jerbi and Yuri Saalmann at Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience


2015:

Kacie Dougherty has a new paper out at Cerebral Cortex




- Received a Career Starter Grant by the Knights Templar Eye Foundation




- Michele Cox has a new paper out at Neurosci. Consc.


Kacie Dougherty was selected as an NEI Vision Training Fellow


- New paper with Schall lab in press at J. Neurophysiol.

Kacie Dougherty received the 2015 VSS Student Travel Award

- New paper with Schmid lab in press at Prog. Neuriobiol.



2014:

- Kacie Dougherty won the 2014 VBI/FST travel award


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Alex Maier has been awarded the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award by the Society for Neuroscience.

- More collaborative work with Schmid lab published in J. Neurosci.

- Collaborative work with Schall lab published in J. Neurosci.

- New paper by Michele Cox published in Consciousness and Cognition. 


New paper by our group published in Eye and Brain.

- Collaborative work with Wallace lab published in J. Neurosci.


2013:

- Dispatch published in Current Biology


- Collaborative work with Schmid lab published at J. Neurosci.

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- New paper by Michele Cox et al. in PNAS

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- Michele Cox and Alex Maier received a Tom Slick Research Award

  by the MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION

- Kacie Dougherty received the 2012 Lisa M. Quesenberry Foundation Award

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- Alex Maier has been elected a Sloan Research Fellow



2012:

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-eBook in Frontiers Human Neuroscience:

  Maier, A., Panagiotaropoulos, T., Tsuchiya, N., Keliris, G.A. (eds)

  Binocular Rivalry: A Gateway to Consciousnes


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-Research Grant awarded by the WHITEHALL FOUNDATION

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-New paper published in CURRENT BIOLOGY:

  Spaak, E., et al. (2012)



- SfN Minisymposium featuring our latest research:

  (with A. Owen, G. Kreiman, M. BolyC. Tallon-Baudry & N. Tsuchiya):

  “The Neural Basis of Consciousness-Recent Advances and Breakthroughs

- Discovery Grant awarded to collaboration between Roe Lab and Maier Lab

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Michele Cox nominated a Graduate Research Fellow

  of the NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

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- Latest research featured in NATURE News Feature:

  Brain Imaging: fMRI 2.0



- Michele Cox received the 2012 VSS Student Travel Award

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- Latest research featured in SCIENCENEWS (Vol.181 #4):

  “Consciousness Emerges” by Laura Sanders




2011:

- Michele Cox received an FST Student Travel Award

- Cosyne Workshop (with G. Tononi, S. Dehaene, A. Seth & N. Tsuchiya):

Computational and Theoretical Approaches to the Problem of Consciousness

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